Russian rescue workers have cleared over 86,000 metric tons of contaminated materials following a severe oil spill in the Black Sea, where ageing tankers were hit by a storm. Thousands of workers have ...

But it is nonetheless disturbing that the agency established to clean up crude oil spill contamination in Ogoni, Rivers State, has gulped almost $1 billion without much to show for it. As the AP ...

A significant oil spill in the Kerch Strait has sparked an intense cleanup effort involving over 10,000 volunteers. Following two tanker incidents, tons of fuel oil have contaminated Russian beaches ...

Thousands of volunteers have mobilised to address a significant oil ... the spill a "large-scale environmental disaster" and urged for sanctions on Russian tankers. The ongoing cleanup efforts ...

Fuel oil spilled out of two storm-hit tankers ... said Friday that more than 5,000 people were still working to clean up the spill. More than 86,000 tons of contaminated sand and soil have been ...

The ecological disaster involving two aging Russian tankers off Crimea is escalating, with the oil spill spreading to the beach, Russian authorities have confirmed ...

as the fuel oil continued washing up on the coastline 10 days after one tanker ran aground and the other was left damaged and adrift on Dec. 15. Krasnodar regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said that ...

Many places are pro-environment and wary of pipelines. Santa Barbara was the first, with oil spills spawning an environmental ethic that is central to the city’s identity. In 1969, another major ...

MOSCOW - Oil that leaked from two stricken tankers off the Russian coast has been detected on more beaches on Ukraine’s Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea, according to Russian officials, as ...

MOSCOW, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Russian investigators have determined that an oil spill from two tankers in the Black Sea last month was smaller than initially thought, the Transport Ministry said on ...

The spill originated from two aging tankers struck by a storm on December 15. One sank, while the other ran aground. Over 10,000 workers have been deployed to clean up thick, odorous fuel oil from the ...